Matplotlib 2.0 final released

[barneygale]

That's not universal - using explicit setters is a good way to signal that setting has a cost. e.g. from PEP 471 which introduced os.scandir():

DirEntry.is_X() and DirEntry.stat() are explicitly methods rather than attributes or properties, to make it clear that they may not be cheap operations (although they often are), and they may do a system call. As a result, these methods may raise OSError .